Structural engineer Goonsung Park, PE, breaks down the pros and cons of cold-formed steel and wood for multifamily housing development.

Safety concerns following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 led to building safety codes that limited the use of wood in construction. While it was one of the first and most common materials used to make ...

Wood construction of big buildings is catching on just about everywhere for good reasons: wood is renewable. In construction it is light, fast and less expensive than other materials. It's also just ...

Each wall system brings specific characteristics to a project...Evaluating factors like structural demands, energy ...

In the last two articles we looked at concrete and steel, two of the basic building blocks of commercial construction. This month we will discuss wood and how it is used in commercial construction. As ...

In the sustainable home building industry, many prospective homeowners want to make environmentally friendly choices, but struggle to make sense of a building industry that labels every house framing ...

The recent push for larger and taller wood structures may seem like an architectural fad—plenty of hype, but only a few dozen completed projects globally. Concrete and steel still rule the world of ...

It’s one of residential construction’s combustible topics. Brian Potter is a structural engineer who writes here on “Wood Construction and the Risk of Fire.” History, physics, data science, ...

The wood-framed pavilion at the center of Wrightwood 659’s "American Framing" exhibition, back stateside after its run at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, fills nearly every inch of the building ...